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Ancient Bones On Santa Rosa

Just off the coast of Southern California, lies Santa Rosa, one of the Channel Islands. There, recently, two female thigh bones have been dug out of a gully at
Arlington Canyon. Radiocarbon-dated at 13,000 years, they are 1,400 years older than the benchmark Clovis sites. The significance of the Santa Rosa bones is
explained in the following quotation.

"The new discovery is likely to be controversial in part because many scientists say that the old skeletons found in the past few years around the
western United States do not resemble modern Native Americans. Detailed examinations of the skulls reveal slender faces, narrower brain cavities,
high foreheads and slightly protruding chins that are more typical of Caucasoid peoples.

"Some of them bear striking resemblance to a very ancient race called the Ainu, a maritime people who were the forerunners of the Polynesians and
long ago occupied Japan and China."